On September 17, 2009 the High Court acquitted all the accused, saying that after the adduced testimony and submissions of both sides, the court was satisfied that the accused were not guilty of the offence they were charged with.

Judge Salum Masati, who was presiding over the case, said the accused were not the ones who committed the murders, adding that the killers were still at large.

Masati ordered the prosecution to find and bring to court the real killers.

However, DPP appealed against the judgment, arguing that Judge Masati was wrong to have discharged the accused.

In the appeal, number 254/2009 filed on October 6, 2006, the DPP forwarded eleven reasons for his move, claiming that, according to the testimony presented in court, all the accused were guilty.